Hacker News with Generative AI: Interviews

Interview with gwern (dwarkeshpatel.com)
Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you've read his blog, you know he's one of the most interesting polymathic thinkers alive.

Interviews, AI

308 points by synthmeat 7 days ago | 247 comments

Project: Verdad – tracking misinformation in radio broadcasts using Gemini 1.5 (simonwillison.net)
I’m starting a new interview series called Project. The idea is to interview people who are building interesting data projects and talk about what they’ve built, how they built it, and what they learned along the way.

Data Projects, Interviews, Misinformation, Gemini 1.5, Radio Broadcasts

4 points by MilnerRoute 7 days ago | 0 comments

A sit-down with Ubuntu founder Mark 'SABDFL' Shuttleworth (theregister.com)
Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth spoke to The Reg FOSS desk at Ubuntu Summit 2024 in The Hague about the Linux distribution's success, its missteps, his regrets, and what he'd tell his younger self.

Linux, Ubuntu, Interviews, Open Source, Software

14 points by rntn 10 days ago | 0 comments

Money was never the end goal – mrdoob – threejs creator (twitter.com)

Software, Web Development, Interviews, Personal Reflections

119 points by greatgib 12 days ago | 42 comments

Steve Sims Interview on Soft White Underbelly [video] (youtube.com)

Interviews, YouTube, Social Media, Documentaries

6 points by perdomon 19 days ago | 1 comments

Interview gone wrong (ashu1461.com)
I have a very basic question which I usually ask in a interview which is to implement a tic tac toe game. I like this because the logic is straightforward and it helps to judge things like code quality / speed / conciseness etc.

Programming, Interviews, Code Quality

139 points by ashu1461 20 days ago | 200 comments

The Crisis in String Theory Is Worse Than You Think (math.columbia.edu)
Curt Jaimungal has a piece out, an interview with Lenny Susskind, with the title The Crisis in String Theory is Worse Than You Think…. Some of what Susskind has to say is the same as in his recent podcast with Lawrence Krauss (discussed here). These days, Susskind sometimes sounds like Peter Woit:

Physics, String Theory, Science, Theoretical Physics, Interviews

43 points by bobismyuncle 20 days ago | 35 comments

Ask HN: How to tell legitimate consulting interview opportuities from scams? (ycombinator.com)
I've been getting a ton of interview requests from "expert insight" companies asking to pay me anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars for an hour long interview, as I have "expertise" that make me a good fit for it.

Consulting, Job Hunting, Scams, Interviews

12 points by charliebwrites 23 days ago | 13 comments

James Cameron on AI, robotics, and ethics [video] (youtube.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Ethics, Interviews, Video

8 points by tkgally 27 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Do you have trouble recalling what you've contributed at your job? (ycombinator.com)
I find that I really struggle to remember what I’ve done specifically before the current task I’m working on. Then I go through my tickets and I start remembering, but off the top of my head it’s pretty blank.<p>Makes me nervous about getting fired and having nothing to talk about in interviews. I should probably be writing things down as I do them.

Work, Memory, Job Security, Interviews

21 points by idontwantthis 28 days ago | 22 comments

An interview with someone who left Effective Altruism (mathbabe.org)
C: Tell me a little bit about your college experience. How did you get interested in this work originally?

Effective Altruism, Interviews, Philosophy, Personal Stories

5 points by kreyenborgi 28 days ago | 0 comments

David Lynch Interview Project (youtube.com)

Interviews, Film, David Lynch, YouTube

103 points by bookofjoe 31 days ago | 20 comments

Oral History of Jim Keller [video] (youtube.com)

Oral History, Interviews, Technology, Silicon Valley

7 points by anotherhue 35 days ago | 0 comments

Oral history of Jim Keller - Computer History Museum [video] (youtube.com)

Oral history, Computer History, Interviews, Video, History

5 points by simon_acca 36 days ago | 0 comments

Swift Creator Chris Lattner on Mojo and Roc (youtube.com)

Swift, Programming Languages, YouTube, Software Development, Interviews

6 points by fuzztester 40 days ago | 0 comments

Interview with Terence Tao in Barcelona (elpais.com)
It’s not good for something as important as AI to be a monopoly controlled by one or two companies, but the basic technology to build these AIs is fairly public.

Artificial Intelligence, Interviews, Technology

56 points by belter 40 days ago | 14 comments

Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell: "Revenge of the Tipping Point" (davidepstein.substack.com)
Twenty-five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell published his first book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference. Two people came to the first stop on his book tour: a stranger, and the mother of one of his friends.

Books, Interviews, Sociology

8 points by paulpauper 43 days ago | 0 comments

In Defense of LeetCode Interviews (alexmolas.com)
For the last weeks at Wallapop, we have been interviewing candidates for a Data Scientist position. Our current interview process is quite standard, but there are some things we would like to change about the process. We were talking about it during lunch, and I saw my opportunity to propose one of my hot takes: “We should start doing Leetcode interviews” 1. And, as expected, no one agreed with me. Their main arguments against my proposal were

Data Science, Interviews, Hiring Practices, Software Engineering

24 points by alexmolas 44 days ago | 89 comments

Interview with Arnold Rauers (Tintytouchtales) on mobile game architecture (gamedatapodcast.com)
Going deep on how Tinytouchtales consistently ships some of the most interesting games on mobile year after year.

Mobile Games, Game Development, Interviews, Podcasts

5 points by kkukshtel 44 days ago | 0 comments

I interviewed 100 DevTools founders and this is what I learned (scalingdevtools.com)
In the last two years, I’ve recorded 100 episodes of Scaling DevTools; a developer tools startup podcast.

Software, Startups, Developer Tools, Interviews, Podcasts

12 points by petercooper 44 days ago | 4 comments

Lex Fridman with Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI (lexfridman.com)
Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted programming.

Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Interviews

25 points by tldl 45 days ago | 2 comments

Bill Atkinson, developer of MacPaint, on the art of developing software (dodgycoder.net)

Software Development, History, Interviews, Apple

10 points by thunderbong 46 days ago | 1 comments

David Lynch Presents Interview Project (youtube.com)

David Lynch, Interviews, Video, YouTube

20 points by brudgers 47 days ago | 2 comments

Linus and Dirk on succession, Rust, and more (lwn.net)
The "Linus and Dirk show" has been a fixture at Open Source Summit for as long as the conference has existed; it started back when the conference was called LinuxCon.

Open Source, Linux, Programming Languages, Interviews

4 points by signa11 49 days ago | 0 comments

Interviewing for Evidence (dannorth.net)
One area where companies struggle is recruiting good people. I see enormous variability in quality and style of interviewing. This is something I care about, having spent nearly a decade working with some amazing recruiters at a global technology consultancy, and variously as an employee, contractor and independent consultant in many organisations.

Recruiting, Human Resources, Interviews, Technology, Consulting

23 points by BerislavLopac 50 days ago | 11 comments

The WordPress Interview (We were both wrong) [video] (youtube.com)

WordPress, Interviews, Video

3 points by doppp 52 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: What are engineering meetings with Elon Musk like? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What are engineering meetings with Elon Musk like?

Engineering, Elon Musk, Work Culture, Interviews

10 points by Cold_Brew 54 days ago | 0 comments

In the Shack with Robert Caro (curbed.com)
As I arrive at Robert Caro’s house, down a rutted, unpaved road in East Hampton, he asks me whether I’d hit any traffic on the Long Island Expressway.

Journalism, Interviews, New York, East Hampton

29 points by samclemens 56 days ago | 23 comments

Nardwuar on his best and worst interviews (vulture.com)
In 1993, a gonzo journalist and punk singer named John Ruskin barged his way into a press conference with Mikhail Gorbachev to ask, “Of all the leaders you’ve encountered, who wears the biggest pants?” Ruskin, known to his peers as Nardwuar the Human Serviette, had a habit of carrying his nutty onstage energy into his interviews, and swiftly gained a reputation for befuddling and bedazzling his subjects.

Music, Interviews, Journalism

138 points by herbertl 56 days ago | 51 comments

An Interview with Shirley Hazzard (thebeliever.net)
Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney in 1931 and she left Australia in 1947. She has since lived in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Britain, and France. Now an American citizen, she divides her time between Italy and New York.

Interviews, Literature, Biography, Australia

4 points by bookofjoe 57 days ago | 1 comments